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News and Notes

By Ral315, 15 August 2005

Deletion reform

After last week's deletion fiasco, Wikipedia:Deletion reform has fleshed out many different proposals on suggested replacements, alterations or re-works of Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. Comments, and even personal proposals, are encouraged.

A subsequent request for arbitration is currently in the discussion phase.

Briefly

• Wikipedia:Requests for Comment has been split into several different subpages based on topic.
• The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 85,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 13,000 articles.
• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

Also this week: Editor's note — Slate and VfD — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — T.R.O.L.L.